WHEN the family started buying land there, Westchester was almost entirely rural, with "large areas of woodlands, lakes, fields and streams — teeming with wildlife," as David Rockefeller wrote in his 2002 "Memoirs".
They spent a mild, snowless winter on the shores of the lake, in a camp named Hop ("tidal pool"), where there were fields of "self-sown" grain, streams teeming with fish, forests with deer and "vines growing on the hills".
He concluded that the "self-sown" grain in the saga could have been wild rice growing in the wetlands that preceded the canal, and that there were also streams teeming with the types of fish named by the Vikings.
Since Buddhists don't fish, you have brilliant mountain streams teeming with trout all to yourself, except for a gang of cranky feline predators that dwell in steep conifer forests just beyond your back-cast.
Just like the Puritans, the Quakers encountered an abundance of food in the New World; forests rich with game and berries, streams teeming with fish, and flocks of birds so abundant that they would sometimes block the sun for several hours.
Now, we know there could be hundreds of billions of planets in our Milky Way galaxy alone". The project's loyal supporters include rancher Floyd Bidwell, 88, who runs 1,000 head on a nearby spread crisscrossed by streams teeming with rainbow trout.
But the middle of Lexington was teeming with activity, as hundreds of people streamed toward the village green; among them sauntered musket-toting soldiers, some in brown breeches and three-cornered hats, others in crisp scarlet uniforms and gleaming white crossbelts.
Great streams of lava...glaciers...fjords teeming with whales.
"Unlike the desolate deserts of shoots past, these locations were teeming with wildlife - from native trout running in the streams, to deer so tame they'd walk right up to you".
Streams spilled out of arroyos and into estuaries teeming with shorebirds.
Dozens of fresh water streams spread across Gorgona like arteries, the lifeblood of an island teeming with flora and fauna.
